OBITUARY: Mattie Wells, 30 Jul 1883 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 21 Sep 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 11, 1883, p. 7, c. 5 WELLS.—Mattie, daughter of Jacob and Sarah F. Wells, was born June 6, 1875, and died July 30, 1883, aged 8 years, 1 month, and 23 days. She was one of a pair of twins; a dutiful child, of smooth temper, never fretting or murmuring at anything. She was kind, generous, yielding, self-denying, self-sacrificing; always desiring to minister to the happiness of others, and especially her younger brothers, rather than to be ministered unto herself. She was a paragon of goodness for one of her years. Noble child! What an angel of a woman she would have made if she had lived. But now she is gone to live with the angels. It seems that they fell in love with a child so amiable, and came down and took her to the hallowed scenes of glory in the "happy fields of Eden." —LACY BOONE.